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标题：Survey of the relation between organizational structure and informational overload in commercial units: A case study of Iran tractor manufacturing company
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作者：Farhad Nejadirani ; Armin Rajabzadeh
期刊名称：African Journal of Business Management
印刷版ISSN：1993-8233
出版年度：2011
卷号：5
期号：26
页码：10419-10427
DOI：10.5897/AJBM11.984
语种：English
出版社：Academic Journals
摘要：Increasing mass information is one of uppermost puzzles for managers who forced to confront with them. On one hand there is also deficient correct information. They may find it difficult to determine which information constitutes corporations’ strategic sources and lead to assets. But that is the question, what a proper solution is. Partly related to design and performance of management information systems. Another part of the solution can be found in design and establishment of appropriate organizational structure and management of organizational information sources. This research surveys the link between organizational structure informational overload in commercial Strategic Business Unit (SBU) of tractor manufacturing of Iran. Robbins theory was the basis in assessment of organizational structure made. Three dimensions to organizational structure: centralization, formalization, complexity, with some indicators for each one, has been evaluated by the theory. This research which by purpose, method, nature of the subject and specified directions is applied, is kind of correlational research (concordance or relational). Moreover data collecting has been done through survey and questionnaires that are in common use for evaluation. Population universe was 74 in people included all of managers and experts of the SBU. Reliability of the questionnaires applying Retest technique, the indicator of reliability coefficient which is kind of co relational coefficient, distinguished by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). This research has one major and three minor hypothesis. Final analysis of data verified the result: the first hypo (centralization) with 0.95 confidence level and the second hypo (formalization) with 0.99 confidence levels. But the third hypo (complexity) rejected. The major hypo (organizational structure) has been verified with 0.99. It is mentioned that the most impact on changes of informational overload variable caused by changes of formalization variable.
关键词：Organizational structure; centralization; formalization; complexity; informational overload